As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it. This transformation is being brought on by “MOOCs”...

... “I believe that India ultimately will be a much bigger market for MOOCs than the U.S.,” says edX chief executive Anant Agarwal, who also is an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science. Indian students crave advanced knowledge that can open doors to a more prosperous life, Agarwal says: “If you’ve been trampled all your life, now you find you can stand shoulder to shoulder with the best.”...

Distributed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are based on the premise that online learning occurs through a network of interconnected learners. The teachers’ role in distributed courses extends to forming such a network by facilitating communication that connects learners and their separate personal learning environments scattered around the Internet. The study reported in this paper examined who fulfilled such an influential role in a particular distributed MOOC – a connectivist course (cMOOC) offered in 2011...

Amnesty International is partnering with edX, a global leader in online education founded by Harvard University and MIT, to deliver a new series of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)The free online courses will be designed by human rights and education experts from across Amnesty International...

... MOOC course designers might consider making content available at the beginning of each course, but they should also consider developing routines and incentives–bonus content, office hours, extra material, email messages–that encourage students to return regularly to classes. Over both of these studies, we see evidence that regardless of exactly how students make their way through courses, returning regularly to the course is a strong predictor of completion.

...Since the program’s launch, a number of courses at HarvardX have tested a simple solution to many of MOOC detractors’ biggest complaints: scaling down, not up. These experiments—which come with their own acronym, SPOC (small private online course)—enable professors to more fully engage a targeted group of learners, who benefit in turn from an intensive, personal course setting...

A study earlier this year revealed that not only are most MOOC users college-degree holding students, but teachers make up a majority of MOOC users too. That raises the question of what professional development tools teacher have available—and what can be done to add more....

...But Sesame Street was not the first MOOC. And really, it is not a MOOC at all. To argue such – to offer that analogy – is historically flawed, erasing other earlier educational media. Furthermore, the analogy erases important differences between the research and design of Sesame Street and that of MOOCs (particularly those MOOCs that have been popularized by the press)...

Many institutions entered the world of MOOCs as a way to begin offering courses online. Berklee’s reasons were different: MOOCs aligned with our mission and would enable us to address a number of strategic initiatives for the college including:

Raise visibility for Berklee

Provide readiness courses for prospective students

Provide music education opportunities to international and underserved populations

A new company is jumping into MOOCs, but with a focus on teaching free courses in the arts.

The new virtual art school, called Kadenze, has already teamed up with programs at 18 institutions, including Stanford and Princeton Universities, to create a digital platform designed for arts courses. According to a company co-founder, Perry R. Cook, an emeritus professor at Princeton, the platform will be “multimedia rich” and allow students to create online portfolios, upload music files and scanned art, watch videos, and participate in discussion forums...

...Bacow, J.D. ’76, M.P.P. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, delivered a talk titled “Online Learning: The Scourge or Savior of Higher Education” at Sanders Theatre on Thursday at the start of the Harvard IT Summit. Kicking off the IT summit, Bacow’s keynote speech discussed the promise and the challenge of this technological dimension to traditional, classroom-based learning...

The last few years have seen a tremendous surge of interest in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Just last month, Harvard and MIT jointly published a large research study examining the trends emerging from MOOCs their universities offered in the last two years...

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